Re: iron worker
- From: RoyJ <spamless@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:28:31 -0500
They are just great for a shop using hot rolled steel bar, plate, and especially angle. Cut, bend, punch. Consider the small shop making the twin axle car haulers: a lot of angles and bars cut to length with lots of holes. With a stop on the end, you can cut angle pieces at almost the full cycle rate of the machine. Ditto for bar. If the dies are sharp, you have almost no deburring to do.
But you need the dies to make the machine work: full set of the punch dies, cutter dies, plus the brake can run as much as the base machine. Sound familiar?
Karl Townsend wrote:
Ad in the paper: 50 ton iron worker mechanical $1700 OBO.
Steal? Pass?
I did some surfing, don't know didly squat about these. it sounds like I need to look for dies and a hydraulic unit would be better.
I have real nice bandsaws, both horizontal (1" blade) and vertical - roll in. And a radial arm drill press. Would I end up using one much? or just another toy in the way?
Karl
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